Women seek bill of rights in Bozeman - By Gail Schontzler Chronicle Staff Writer

Found here. My comments in bold.
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This is a horribly fawning article by a supposed journalist. Ms. Schontzler simply regurgitates the talking points as if they were incontestable facts. And this isn't the first time. 

Truly embarrassing.
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Lots of working women feel unhappy that they’re paid less than men. (What women feel is irrelevant. The facts matter. Well, perhaps not to Ms. Schontzler.)

Franke Wilmer (A leftist professor who seems to be full of herself and her accomplishments.)

is trying to do something about it. (Actually, she is trying to parlay the disaffection stoked by leftists like herself into more money and more political power.)

Wilmer, a professor (Um, leftist professor. It would be helpful if the journalist was as quick to assign labels to the extreme Left as she tends to do with the Right.)

and political science department head at Montana State University, told campus leaders Wednesday that she and supporters plan to ask the Bozeman City Commission to outlaw all forms of discrimination against women. (Apparently people are denying women their rights all over the place. Let's see if this is the case.)

On May 14, the day after Mother’s Day, they intend to show up at City Hall with petitions and supporters.

Over her lifetime, an American woman with a college degree earns on average $1 million less than her male counterparts, Wilmer told about 30 deans and campus representatives at the University Council. (Does that have anything to do with the life choices made by women, like gravitating to lower-paid fields and avoiding STEM fields, not working the same number of hours as men, or taking time off for family matters and pregnancy?)

Some women have taken to handing out buttons saying, “I Want My $1 Million,” Wilmer said. (Money they haven't earned. Typical leftists.)

For women with high school degrees, the lifetime pay gap is $750,000. Two-thirds of Montana families depend on income earned by women. (But, but... what about life choices that have influenced this?)

“When they do better, we all do better,” she said. (Unsupported assertion.)

Montana women rank near the bottom nationally, earning 73 cents for every $1 men earn, or $34,028 to men’s $46,545, even when they work full time, year round. (Doing lower paying jobs...)

That’s 48th in the nation, according to the American Association of University Women’s 2018 updated report, “The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap.” (How about some real truth, like the Leftist website Slate? Even they can admit the disparity is largely made up.)

Discrimination against women is a broader issue than pay, Wilmer said. It involves violence against women, human trafficking, and discrimination in the workplace, health care and education. (That is, if something bad happens to women, it is somehow discrimination.)

A number of cities across the country have embraced an international agreement — the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, or CEDAW — that was passed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1979. (Jumping on the Leftist wagon train.

CEDAW is in essence a treaty, which would carry the wight of law in the U.S.: 

"Countries that have ratified or acceded to the Convention are legally bound to put its provisions into practice. They are also committed to submit national reports, at least every four years, on measures they have taken to comply with their treaty obligations."

It is a long leftist document that not only reduces the sovereignty of those nations who adopt it, but it also codifies leftist dogma as the law of the land.)

Called a bill of rights for women, it has been approved by 189 out of 196 countries, she said. The United States is one of seven countries that have not, along with Iran, Somalia and Sudan. The U.S. signed the agreement in 1980, but it was never brought to the Senate floor for a vote, where it would need a two-thirds majority.

With national action halted, local activists and officials have started a Cities for CEDAW campaign. The U.S. Conference of Mayors has endorsed it. (That's what leftists do. If they can't get what they want all at once, they will get it incrementally.)

Bozeman already has laws and policies prohibiting gender discrimination, Wilmer said, but a new city ordinance based on the international agreement would require taking a big-picture look at women’s human rights and focus on ending all forms of discrimination against women and girls.

It would require analyzing the city’s policies, spending and workforce, creating an oversight group to monitor progress and developing an action plan. (Notice that liberal Bozeman is an offender. Why is it that things are so bad in a leftist haven?)

Cities that have adopted such ordinances range from Cincinnati to Miami, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles. More cities, from Minneapolis to Boulder, Colorado, have passed resolutions, which express support but don’t have the status of an ordinance.

“It’s gaining momentum,” Wilmer said.

She listed as supporters three Bozeman city commissioners — I-Ho Pomeroy, Chris Mehl and Terry Cunningham — former Mayor Carson Taylor, Bozeman School Board Trustee Heide Arneson, Human Resource Development Council CEO Heather Grenier, Bozeman Business and Professional Women, and leaders of the HAVEN domestic violence shelter, Bridgercare, Bozeman Child Care Connections, Career Transitions, Forward Montana and Hopa Mountain.

Others promoting the city ordinance idea include Jan Strout, an MSU instructor, and Betsy Danforth, MSU Women’s Center director. (A litany of leftist sympathizers.)

MSU President Waded Cruzado said Wilmer had made a “great presentation” when she spoke to the MSU President’s Commission on the Status of University Women.

“This is something the city of Bozeman needs to be aware of,” Cruzado said.

Cruzado reminded University Council members that the commission is seeking nominations for 125 outstanding women leaders, problem solvers and innovators affiliated with MSU over its history, to be honored as part of the university’s 125th anniversary celebration. (A little symbolism with no substance always helps.)

Nominations are open until May 15, said Brett Gunnink, engineering dean. The women will be honored this fall, he said, when the football stadium will be all pink. More information is posted on MSU’s website at https://bit.ly/2JBfoyO.